Is it possible to put labels on clips?

Clip inspector>Clip Properties - type in a name.

I guess I'm a bit dense, but I can't seem to figure this out. What/Where is the clip inspector?  Whatever it is, it's not intuitive to me.


Secondly am I correct in assuming there is no way to assign keybindings to snap resolution? (The work around being using screen sets?)

wind, you know the inspector on the left? Press 'I' and it comes up with Clip, Track, and ProCh, tabs. Click on Clip and choose properties and you can set up a bunch of stuff - name, colors, start time etc.

You might have to press the Clip tab a second time if it opens to the faders without properties.

I see Scott answered your other question.

Haha thanks guys... I feel a bit dim! That's the one place I didn't look the top of the inspector! I was looking for a "clip inspector" anyways, that doesn't seem to be what I wanted.

I don't want to name the clip

I want to put a marker at a specific time in the clip...  (Instead of on the timeline) can you do that? And it doesn't seem that you can, I think it would be a great idea

Thank Scott!

I've really been getting into keybindings lately, 
Knowing keybindings increases my workflow much more than a GUI overhaul ever could IMHO

Another feature I'm wondering if it exists or not... is there something that would allow the (forgive my possible misuse of terminology) "Now Time" vertical line which indicates where playback will start when press play..

Is there something that will allow that line to persist when you rewind or fast forward so you see where you're RR'ing or FF'ing to? So that you don't have to guess?

You can rewind to any marker, would that help? You can set that up in one of the drop down menus I believe. Track View>Options is one setting. I think there are more.

Just wanted to thank you guys for your help so far

What I've done instead for marking areas of clips is, using the smart tool to alt click to quickly slice certain areas into separate clips and then label them under the clip properties.. it'd be nice if there was a quicker way of doing this but I guess this works for now

windsurfer25x


Even better, it would be cool if you could highlight part of a clip and change the color of the highlighted portion as a mental indicator of that area of the clip

*EDIT* maybe not the color but the contrast/white balance would be good

I do dialog editing in a wave editor like Audition, Sound Forge or Wavelab... but it seems like you could simply split your clips and use the clip boundary as a marker of sorts. That would allow you to color code the clips.

Remember the "split" is just make believe...all the audio persists until you DESTROY it.

I've often thought SONAR's basic fast forward and rewind capabilities were less than intuitive useful. Rewind to 0:00 or start is easy and tab to marker is great but there seems like some obvious other desirable options that don't seem to exist. Like rewind to beginning or end of clip, stuff like that. Maybe it does exist but it's buried in the manual...

best regards,
mike

I doubt adding a marker and typing in a marker label would be any faster than splitting a clip and naming it... unless X2 brings back full fledged right click contextual menus as a time saver.

mike_mccue


You mean you can't right click/properties any more?

:-S

It used to just pop up front and center.


X1B may, or may not fix the selection bug and if it does you may or may not be able to drag and drop multiple clips.

There are of course a few work around procedures that you can use in the mean time.

I know... but wasn't that too easy? ;-)

At least the X1b fixed list claims that now we'll be able to open the clip info (still in the inspector) with a dbl-click on the clip... what a horrible trade-off... I keep that set to open the PRV! They just don't seem to "get it"...

Keni

windsurfer25x


Haha thanks guys... I feel a bit dim! That's the one place I didn't look the top of the inspector! I was looking for a "clip inspector" anyways, that doesn't seem to be what I wanted.

I don't want to name the clip

I want to put a marker at a specific time in the clip...  (Instead of on the timeline) can you do that? And it doesn't seem that you can, I think it would be a great idea

If you want it in the clip's track/layer? Why not create an empty clip and name it, placing it where you'd like the name to appear? It won't be "in" the clip, but it will show alongside the actual clip when you have display layers on...

windsurfer25x


Even better, it would be cool if you could highlight part of a clip and change the color of the highlighted portion as a mental indicator of that area of the clip

*EDIT* maybe not the color but the contrast/white balance would be good

That's an easy one... Simply split the clip at front/back and change the clip's color...

windsurfer25x


I don't think that would help, I'm doing some editing of some spoken word, editing out mistakes so I want to be able RR and FF quickly, having the "now time line" persist in that would definitely help me be more precise

Using benstat's Sonar Plus, he has two buttons for back/forward one measure.... They will move your cursor 1 measure for each click in the chosen direction...

Keni

windsurfer25x


I don't think that would help, I'm doing some editing of some spoken word, editing out mistakes so I want to be able RR and FF quickly, having the "now time line" persist in that would definitely help me be more precise

Using benstat's Sonar Plus, he has two buttons for back/forward one measure.... They will move your cursor 1 measure for each click in the chosen direction...

Ben must actually use SONAR... so much of what he is doing reflects basic sensibility